Data Design Lead

This role can be based from any Barclays strategic office location in the UK.

• Own the Data Product Design Methodology
  – Define authoritative methods for data product design that build best practice data design principles into all data products, whilst being pragmatic,practical,and supportive of rapid execution.

• Design Governance & Compliance
  –Design and embed design checkpoints and data architecture governance requirements introchange processes for the execution of Group Control data product development, across business units;andensure adherence to architecture principles through key governance forums.

• Lead theGlobal
  
  Data Design Community
  – Build and mentor a global team of Data Design Leads and Engineers, setting standards andestablishingclearcareer pathways.

• Priority Use Case Delivery
  – Drive design forhigh-risk domains (Financial Crime, Fraud, Risk) in partnership with data platform and domain owners.
  
  Provide hands-on specialist input on the design of key priority use cases, to support success and helpdemonstratebest practices by leading by example.

• Design Quality & Reuse
  – Codify reusable patterns,reference architecture,anddesigntemplates,to accelerate delivery and reduce duplication.

• Catalogue & Metadata Excellence
  – Ensure data product onboarding meets policy requirements, including those for business definitions, lineage and quality SLAs for discoverability and trust.

• Stakeholder Leadership
  – Represent design at senior forums andsupportinvestmentdecisionsfor design-critical outcomes.

• Controls & Risk
  – Embed design-time controls for data quality,privacy and regulatory evidence,support auditability.
  
  Advocate the pragmatic implementation of modern, digital controls for transparency,observability,and automated compliance by design.

• Compliance
  –Ensure design artefacts meet audit and regulatory evidence standards.

• Ways of Working & Tooling
  – Standardize artefacts and integrate with Barclays’ enterprise tools and ways of working, driving consistency and cross-business unit collaboration, accelerated delivery,and enhanced quality.

• Talent & Culture
  – Champion Barclays’ values and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture across locations.

• Proven track record building and leading data product design teams at enterprise scale, and inlarge-scale data product delivery and stakeholder engagement.

• Previous experience as a Data Design Lead , ideally within financial crime, risk, or regulatory domains.
• Hands on experience of designing data products on enterprise data platform on cloud.

• A background in delivering data-driven solutions, with a deep understanding of data product development.

• Deepexpertisein data design, including modelling (conceptual/logical/physical), information architecture,metadata,and taxonomy management.

• Strong knowledge of governance and how to embed design standardsintochange processes in large, global, complex financial services organization's.

• Hands-on familiarity with modern data platforms and product curation.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior executive level.

• Leadership in talent development and capability uplift across global teams.

• Expertise in Financial Crime and Economic Crime would be preferred.

• Degree-level qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics or equivalent.

• Strong experience in data architectureanddesign, including experience in leading enterprise data design functions.

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed…